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Israel is expected to present a new withdrawal map during ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, after talks stalled over Tel Aviv’s insistence on maintaining control of a large area along the Gaza Strip, media reports said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Israel’s Channel 12 said mediators are waiting for the new map to be submitted by Israel.

Hamas had agreed to a buffer zone with a width of 0.7 to 1 kilometers (0.43 to 0.62 miles), but Israel’s last proposal…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Saturday that illegal Israeli settlers are killing Palestinians every day in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports.

Olmert told Channel 13 TV that Israelis are killing Palestinians daily in “Judea and Samaria” (the West Bank), and the far-right “Hilltop Youth” are committing war crimes.

He dismissed claims that the group is a minority as “a lie,” saying: “They are not a minority, on the contrary, they…

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said the Gaza Strip should remain in a state of devastation without reconstruction for decades, media reports said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 television, Cohen said Israel has no intention of assisting in rebuilding Gaza’s destroyed infrastructure.

“Gaza should remain in ruins for decades without reconstruction,” he was quoted.

Referring to the army’s two main goals in Gaza, Cohen said…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed more than 40 Palestinians, including at a market and a water distribution point, as talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stalled.

Delegations from Israel and the Palestinian militant group have now spent a week trying to agree on a temporary truce to halt 21 months of devastating fighting in the Gaza Strip.

But on Saturday, each side accused the other of blocking attempts to secure an agreement at the indirect…